About this item
Would you rather put your grubby clothes in the washing machine, or take them down to the river and beat the dirt out of them? Youre lucky to have the choice! Soaps and detergents are among the great benefits of modern life. They help to keep us comfortable and save us from smelling unpleasant, but above all, they help to protect us from the germs that cause infectious diseases. Learn how soap works, how it is made, and how much harder life would be if we really did have to live without it.
About the Author
Alex Woolf is an award-winning author of over 200 books, both fiction and non-fiction, for middle grade, YA and adults. His non-fiction encompasses a whole variety of subjects, from science and the natural world to politics and social issues, but his favourite subject is history. His 'History of the World' has sold over 100,000 copies in the English-speaking world and been translated into seven different languages since it first appeared in 2008.Alex is a regular author for Fiction Express, online publishers of interactive stories for schools. He writes a chapter a week, and children vote on how the story should continue. Fiction Express is read by 150,000 students from 20 countries. He has won Fiction Express awards for his stories 'Mystery at Moon Base One' and 'Cosmo Mars and the Vanishing Woman'. He was also shortlisted for the Falkirk Red Book Award for his horror novel 'Soul Shadows'. His fiction writing credits also include a science fiction trilogy, 'Chronosphere', The Shakespeare Plot, about Tudor spies, and a steampunk series, Iron Sky. His Victorian supernatural thriller Aldo Moon was one of Lovereading4kids' books of the year. His adult fiction includes the psychological thriller Mr Jones, published by Indie Novella. He is co-author of a comic 'novel-in-emails', Work in Progress, published by Unbound. For more details, visit his website at alexwoolf.co.uk
